Thursday, 29 November 2018

dividend and portolio update Nov 2018





Dividend by month

1) singtel
2) fcot sgx  starhillg fct sphreit cmt fortune capitaretail capitacom mit suntec
3) spost  taisin  nam lee
5) fcot steng sgx  uob sph starhillg fct sphreit cmt cdg hcg Singre teckwah mit sci suntec bumi hlf ums
6) tcil ocbc
7) singpost ums
8) fcot singtel  plife  suntec ocbc  starhillg sci steng fct singpost sphreit cmt ock fortune  capitacom  siaen mit sats uob cdg sci
9)   hlf teckwah bumi singre capitaretail
10) sgx ums tcil
11) fcot taisin sgx spost  starhillg fct cmt siaen mit suntec
12) sph ksh ock sats netlink ums



Remarks:

Taisin

recent quarter earning 0.31c. been watching this counter more closely after the boss decided to cut the final dividend slightly 1.6 to 1.5c. sure, its not a big amount. but any decision to cut dividends must not be taken lightly. especially when we talking about a 100-200m cap counter, with little hard physical asset backing, the only main reason for the share price is the earnings and dividend yield. without these, there actually no reason why it should trade near 40c. with this kind of earnings, it is possible that the full year earnings could be in the region of 1-2c, unless the next few quarters produce some spectacular results, which i remain skeptical of. if this hypothesis is right, we could see the dividends being cut by half. high nav for this sort of counter is not useful and doesnt really support the price much. imo it should fall below 30c unless some spectacular quarters appear subsequently.

First Reit and Lippo

pondered upon these two counters thoroughly. both are related to the same owners. thus problems with the owner would affect these. It seem that there could be some cash flow and credit issues. And i am increasingly cognizant of the effects of the depreciating ruppiah on these counters. First reit, it won't be possible for it to maintain an increasing dps. Even though we talk about healthcare as being very resilent even in market crashes. But credit risk and depreciating currencies make will be increasingly harder and moving on, will reach a point where its just impossible to maintain dps. Lippo is not dissimilar. we can see drastic cuts in the dividends in the preceding quarters already. i have underestimated the forex risks and should have bailed out in the 30c plus levels. Though these two counters collectively constitutes only 6% of my portfolio, i doubt the ruppiah depreciation won't continue, and once the integrity of the credit of owners are in question, and one of the days the banks happen to be weak, switching the funds to the bank stocks isn't too difficult a decision.



Sold off majority of taisin, all of first reit and all of lippo. these 3 counters collectively constitutes about 8% of my portfolio.

With the proceeds, i have added all three banks and Keppel corp.

Added more sia and sats using my dividends.





Overall,

nothing fanciful and nothing new: dividends received will be used to reinvest in the same counters and/or the counters which are about to pay dividends soon.

No further input is necessary. Portfolio creates the income every month and gets reinvested. One reinvestment move means one more continuous stream of income in the future.

Counters get rebalanced periodically as and when the opportunities arise.

Market up or down doesn't matter too much, in fact is not a bad thing after all. Dividends provided new cash flow as compounding and dollar cost average tool.

Wednesday, 31 October 2018

portfolio and dividend list October 2018



Dividend by month

1) singtel
2) fcot sgx  starhillg fct sphreit cmt fortune capitaretail capitacom mit suntec
3) spost  taisin lippo nam lee
5) fcot steng sgx  uob sph starhillg fct sphreit cmt cdg hcg lippo Singre teckwah mit sci suntec bumi hlf ums
6) tcil ocbc
7) singpost ums
8) fcot singtel  plife  suntec ocbc  starhillg sci steng fct singpost sphreit cmt lippo  ock fortune  capitacom  siaen mit sats uob cdg sci
9)   hlf teckwah bumi singre capitaretail
10) sgx ums tcil
11) fcot taisin sgx spost  starhillg fct cmt lippo siaen mit suntec
12) sph ksh ock sats netlink ums



Remarks:

Added more dbs sgx sph sia during the current downturn with the help of my dividends


Overall,

nothing fanciful and nothing new: dividends received will be used to reinvest in the same counters and/or the counters which are about to pay dividends soon.

No further input is necessary. Portfolio creates the income every month and gets reinvested. One reinvestment move means one more continuous stream of income in the future.

Counters get rebalanced periodically as and when the opportunities arise.

Market up or down doesn't matter too much, in fact is not a bad thing after all. Dividends provided new cash flow as compounding and dollar cost average tool.

Wednesday, 24 October 2018

went to bank to open FD but RM ask me to buy accumulators

yesterday during lunch, went to a bank (won't mention which), to open a FD. cos there's quite an attractive promotion going on. and these funds are part of my emergency ones. so no harm getting something better for them, anyway most likely they will stay put also.

while waiting in the room and being served with a drink there, the RM came ....
sir, you know there's this product, like bank shares, you buy at this price then potentially....
its basically accumulators!

wah... got this kind of promotion 

Wednesday, 3 October 2018

how my old friend retired so early in life - true story

recently i met my old school friend, whom i known for the past 3 decades.

i haven't met him for a long time as i have been busy at work and family stuff and somehow lost contact.

we spoke as he needed my advice on something.

when the official business was settled, we started some catching up.

he told me that he retired long ago, maybe in his early thirties, now basically running errands, fetching family around, doing marketing etc. he lives in a nice landed property and drives a nice car.

i did some research. it's true.

his grandfather sowed the seeds, planted the tree long long ago and he's descendents enjoying the shade and fruits. he's receiving dividends upwards of 0.5m per year. in normal circumstances, cannot possibly finish using.




Sunday, 30 September 2018

portfolio and dividend list september 2018

Decided to update my portfolio as well as dividend payout, for easier reference. 



Dividend by month

1) singtel
2) fcot sgx  starhillg fct sphreit cmt fortune capitaretail capitacom mit suntec
3) spost  taisin lippo nam lee
5) fcot steng sgx  uob sph starhillg fct sphreit cmt cdg hcg lippo Singre teckwah mit sci suntec bumi hlf ums
6) tcil ocbc
7) singpost ums
8) fcot singtel  plife  suntec ocbc  starhillg sci steng fct singpost sphreit cmt lippo  ock fortune  capitacom  siaen mit sats uob cdg sci
9)   hlf teckwah bumi singre capitaretail
10) sgx ums tcil
11) fcot taisin sgx spost  starhillg fct cmt lippo siaen mit suntec
12) sph ksh ock sats netlink ums


Remarks:

Added more sgx, sph, hlf, singpost, lian beng last month. 


Overall,

nothing fanciful and nothing new: dividends received will be used to reinvest in the same counters and/or the counters which are about to pay dividends soon.

No further input is necessary. Portfolio creates the income every month and gets reinvested. One reinvestment move means one more continuous stream of income in the future.

Counters get rebalanced periodically as and when the opportunities arise.

Market up or down doesn't matter too much, in fact is not a bad thing after all. Dividends provided new cash flow as compounding and dollar cost average tool.

Friday, 31 August 2018

August 2018 Dividend list



I decided to deviate from my usual portfolio reporting to just record down the dividends received.


Overall,

nothing fanciful and nothing new: dividends received will be used to reinvest in the same counters and/or the counters which are about to pay dividends soon.

No further input is necessary. Portfolio creates the income every month and gets reinvested. One reinvestment move means one more continuous stream of income in the future.

Counters get rebalanced periodically as and when the opportunities arise.

Market up or down doesn't matter too much, in fact is not a bad thing after all. Dividends provided new cash flow as compounding and dollar cost average tool.


p.s. exact counter/portfolio size will be kept p and c.


31/8/2018 Singpost added 115

3/9/2018

Lian beng and UMS added at 51.5 and 74.5 respectively.





Tuesday, 31 July 2018

portfolio update july 2018

Dividend by month

1) singtel
2) fcot sgx  starhillg fct sphreit cmt fortune capitaretail capitacom mit suntec
3) spost  taisin lippo nam lee netlink
5) fcot steng sgx  uob sph starhillg fct sphreit cmt cdg hcg lippo Singre teckwah mit sci suntec bumi
6) tcil ocbc
7) singpost
8) fcot singtel  plife  suntec ocbc  starhillg sci steng fct singpost sphreit cmt lippo singre ock fortune capitaretail capitacom teckwah siaen mit sats bumi
9)  uob tcil cdg netlink sci
10) sgx
11) fcot taisin sgx spost  starhillg fct cmt lippo siaen mit suntec
12) sph ksh ock sats


Remarks:

Added  dbs 25.21, sia 10.32 and hlf 2.61 in july


Overall,

nothing fanciful and nothing new: dividends received will be used to reinvest in the same counters and/or the counters which are about to pay dividends soon.

No further input is necessary. Portfolio creates the income every month and gets reinvested. One reinvestment move means one more continuous stream of income in the future.

Counters get rebalanced periodically as and when the opportunities arise.

Market up or down doesn't matter too much, in fact is not a bad thing after all. Dividends provided new cash flow as compounding and dollar cost average tool.

Thursday, 28 June 2018

portfolio update June2018

Dividend by month

1) singtel
2) fcot sgx  starhillg fct sphreit cmt fortune capitaretail capitacom mit suntec
3) spost  taisin lippo nam lee netlink
5) fcot steng sgx  uob sph starhillg fct sphreit cmt cdg hcg lippo Singre teckwah mit sci suntec
6) tcil ocbc
7) singpost
8) fcot singtel  plife  suntec ocbc  starhillg sci steng fct singpost sphreit cmt lippo singre ock fortune capitaretail capitacom teckwah siaen mit sats
9)  uob tcil cdg netlink sci
10) sgx
11) fcot taisin sgx spost  starhillg fct cmt lippo siaen mit suntec
12) sph ksh ock sats


Remarks:

bought sats, added more sgx, suntec, sph, singtel.

took up scrip from hotel grand.

from january sti dropped from a high of around 3550 to a low of around 3250 in june. This represents drop of some 8.5% so far. Where market is heading, no one know. I see a lot of analysts painting quite a bearish view at this point in time. during the same period, my portfolio dropped about 3%.
this suggest that having a lot of good dividend counters in the portfolio would out perform market and this is not the same as buying index. similarly, when markets is pushed up by a strong bull, i would probably not expect my portfolio to go up by the same percentage due to the lack of growth counters in my portfolio.



Overall,

nothing fanciful and nothing new: dividends received will be used to reinvest in the same counters and/or the counters which are about to pay dividends soon.

No further input is necessary. Portfolio creates the income every month and gets reinvested. One reinvestment move means one more continuous stream of income in the future.

Counters get rebalanced periodically as and when the opportunities arise.

Market up or down doesn't matter too much, in fact is not a bad thing after all. Dividends provided new cash flow as compounding and dollar cost average tool.

Sunday, 27 May 2018

portfolio update may 2018

Dividend by month

1) singtel
2) fcot sgx  starhillg fct sphreit cmt fortune capitaretail capitacom mit suntec
3) spost  taisin lippo nam lee netlink
5) fcot steng sgx  uob sph starhillg fct sphreit cmt cdg hcg lippo Singre teckwah mit sci suntec
6) tcil ocbc
7) singpost
8) fcot singtel  plife  suntec ocbc  starhillg sci steng fct singpost sphreit cmt lippo singre ock fortune capitaretail capitacom teckwah siaen mit
9)  uob tcil cdg netlink sci
10) sgx
11) fcot taisin sgx spost  starhillg fct cmt lippo siaen mit suntec
12) sph ksh ock


Remarks:

added more sia eng

bought into bumitama agri, as part of diversification process. it is one of the better performing agri stocks and better dividend paying one. lots of share buy back noted which suggests that the management themselves think their stock is undervalued.



Overall,

nothing fanciful and nothing new: dividends received will be used to reinvest in the same counters and/or the counters which are about to pay dividends soon.

No further input is necessary. Portfolio creates the income every month and gets reinvested. One reinvestment move means one more continuous stream of income in the future.

Counters get rebalanced periodically as and when the opportunities arise.

Market up or down doesn't matter too much, in fact is not a bad thing after all. Dividends provided new cash flow as compounding and dollar cost average tool.

Thursday, 26 April 2018

Portfolio Update April 2017

Dividend by month

1) singtel
2) fcot sgx  starhillg fct sphreit cmt fortune capitaretail capitacom mit suntec
3) spost  taisin lippo nam lee netlink
5) fcot steng sgx  uob sph starhillg fct sphreit cmt cdg hcg lippo Singre teckwah mit sci suntec
6) tcil ocbc
7) singpost
8) fcot singtel  plife  suntec ocbc  starhillg sci steng fct singpost sphreit cmt lippo singre ock fortune capitaretail capitacom teckwah siaen mit
9)  uob tcil cdg netlink sci
10) sgx
11) fcot taisin sgx spost  starhillg fct cmt lippo siaen mit suntec
12) sph ksh ock


Remarks:

Add mit.

Reentered suntec at around 190, as pb ratio and yield started to become favourable again.

Added nlpm at around 36c. unknown reason for small selldown today. to me, it means value.

starhill remains weak. dpu 1.09.  won't add more for now though pb ratio favourable.

fct suntec still showed yoy rise in dpu



Overall,

nothing fanciful and nothing new: dividends received will be used to reinvest in the same counters and/or the counters which are about to pay dividends soon.

No further input is necessary. Portfolio creates the income every month and gets reinvested. One reinvestment move means one more continuous stream of income in the future.

Counters get rebalanced periodically as and when the opportunities arise.

Market up or down doesn't matter too much, in fact is not a bad thing after all. Dividends provided new cash flow as compounding and dollar cost average tool.

Wednesday, 4 April 2018

low keng huat

i used to hold his counter, got in at around 54c, took 1 round of 4c dividend but got out at 68c.
normally, my preferred holding time is mid to long range.

however, when i saw the 2-3quarter earnings of this company, i figured that it was unlikely to sustain an earnings to be able to pay out 4c this year.

true enough, eps whole year dropped and dividend cut to 2c, and the price retreated accordingly. minus this round of dividends, it might go closer to 60c. if its unable to keep up to its previous 4c dividend, the yield would be too low for me.

i know some people mentioned that LKH has enough reserves to pay out 10years of 4c dividends annually if it wished. however, its unlikely to do so. it will unlikely use its reserves to pay out dividend, rather it will pay out a cut from its eps and keep its reserves for property acquisitions.
will still place this counter on my watch list.

Thursday, 22 March 2018

Portfolio Update March 2018

Dow dropped 700 points overnight and STI is following a similar fashion. Indicators are mostly red and down by some 2%. Looks like this is a year of wild swings in the market.

Overall, market direction is still up.

I had some time to tabulate my portfolio against sti. From jan 2016 (sti was around 3150) to now (sti now around 3430, STI has gained nearly 9%. Over a similar time, my portfolio has gained nearly 19%. Most of it is via dividend reinvesting and also rebalancing of portfolio occurs every 6 months or so, or unless a particular counter moves upwards so much that a sooner rebalancing is warranted.

I believe my portfolio is rather defensive and resilient in nature. Previous large drops in sti resulted in corresponding drops of smaller magnitude.

As I type this, STI closed down 71 points or 2.06% from yesterday. My portfolio dropped by 0.70%.

Dividend by month

1) singtel
2) fcot sgx  starhillg fct sphreit cmt fortune capitaretail capitacom mit
3) spost  taisin lippo nam lee netlink
5) fcot steng sgx  uob sph starhillg fct sphreit cmt cdg hcg lippo Singre teckwah mit
6) tcil ocbc
7) singpost
8) fcot singtel  plife  ocbc  starhillg sci steng fct singpost sphreit cmt lippo singre ock fortune capitaretail capitacom teckwah siaen mit
9)  uob tcil cdg netlink
10) sgx
11) fcot taisin sgx spost  starhillg fct cmt lippo siaen mit
12) sph ksh ock


Remarks:

Added more SG and bought teckwah. Reason is because they appear cheap at the current price. Value for money to me. Nothing sold.

16/4/2018: Have added some mit at around 199 price just after initial portfolio update post up. i like the increasing dividend trend and the company diversifying out of singapore.


Overall,

nothing fanciful and nothing new: dividends received will be used to reinvest in the same counters and/or the counters which are about to pay dividends soon.

No further input is necessary. Portfolio creates the income every month and gets reinvested. One reinvestment move means one more continuous stream of income in the future.

Counters get rebalanced periodically as and when the opportunities arise.

Market up or down doesn't matter too much, in fact is not a bad thing after all. Dividends provided new cash flow as compounding and dollar cost average tool.




DON'T FORGET TO ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS:


1) WILL THIS COMPANY GO BUST IN 10 YEARS?
2) WILL THIS COMPANY STOP DIVIDENDS?


3) WILL THIS COMPANY STOP INCREASING DIVIDENDS OVER TIME?

Wednesday, 28 February 2018

portfolio update february 2018

Dividend by month

1) singtel
2) fcot sgx  starhillg fct sphreit cmt fortune capitaretail capitacom
3) spost  taisin lippo nam lee netlink
5) fcot steng sgx  uob sph starhillg fct sphreit cmt cdg hcg lippo Singre
6) tcil ocbc
7) singpost
8) fcot singtel  plife  ocbc  starhillg sci steng fct singpost sphreit cmt lippo singre ock fortune capitaretail capitacom
9)  uob tcil cdg netlink
10) sgx
11) fcot taisin sgx spost  starhillg fct cmt lippo
12) sph sats ksh ock


Remarks:

Added more sph comfortdelgro singre & fortune with dividends received




Overall,

nothing fanciful and nothing new: dividends received will be used to reinvest in the same counters and/or the counters which are about to pay dividends soon.

No further input is necessary. Portfolio creates the income every month and gets reinvested. One reinvestment move means one more continuous stream of income in the future.

Counters get rebalanced periodically as and when the opportunities arise.

Market up or down doesn't matter too much, in fact is not a bad thing after all. Dividends provided new cash flow as compounding and dollar cost average tool.




DON'T FORGET TO ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS:


1) WILL THIS COMPANY GO BUST IN 10 YEARS?
2) WILL THIS COMPANY STOP DIVIDENDS?


3) WILL THIS COMPANY STOP INCREASING DIVIDENDS OVER TIME?

Monday, 19 February 2018

Value often emerges during big drops


i took the recent sti 100 point plunge to add a counter. I chose fortune as it pays dividend twice a year and there is a discernible rising trend in the payouts. In addtion, it is one of the most deeply discounted reits around. the strategy of having a regular steam of dividends helped as it came handy when i needed the funds.

sure, it might seem scary to buy during such drops. but actually, its even more scary to buy when sti was 3600 level.




Monday, 29 January 2018

Buying index verses dividend portfolio

Recently, i replied to a reader who asked me if i hold so many counters, might as well i go buy index?

At one glance and perhaps to a lot of people, it might make sense.

However, in reality, its not quite the same.

In index, we only get dividend 2x a year. this makes compounding a lot (and i say it again) a lot slower.

The bigger difference and actually dangerous difference is when one takes out a fixed amount say 4% from this portfolio. In bull times, it can be done without much fear as there's a lot to take out anyway and we are only removing 4%. However, in cases of bear, and here were are talking about prolonged bear of perhaps 10year or longer, market drops, and we are still liquidating 4% pa. As we go into the bear years, with inflation doing its job, now we might find ourselves in a fix, in a bigger fix as the bear continues its attack. The dollar cost averaging which we put in in the construction of this STindex portfoilio now faces its evil twin- dollar LOSS averaging. Never say never, but if it happens, those who spend decades buying stidex and just sitting on the sidelines, using its twice a year dividend to add more, now might have even to seek alternative sources of income.

Now this dividend portfolio
compoundation is fast, much faster in effect due to the syngistic effect of the individual counters churning out dividends and feeding the other counters.

in times of bear and bull, during retirement, the dividends coming at various times can simply be used as income. There is hardly any fear of outliving the portfolio as the average dividend yield of the entire portfolio is in excess of 5. In fact, there is still surplus to reinvest if one wishes so.

Be careful when one takes out a fixed sum say 4% from the portfolio. And it depends on what sort of portfolio we are talking about. Index buying and growth stocks, all run the risk of dollar LOSS averaging when we are talking about withdrawal in prolonged bear.

So to say that just buy index, means one havent thought about these things, to say the least. I have seen people, some so called experts dispensing advice to others that index investing should replace what they are doing.  And in reality, its those people who have been through these times, who will really know the difference in these investment modalities.




 


Thursday, 25 January 2018

portfolio update jan 2018

Dividend by month

1) singtel
2) fcot sgx  starhillg fct sphreit cmt fortune capitaretail capitacom
3) spost  taisin lippo nam lee netlink
5) fcot steng sgx  uob sph starhillg fct sphreit cmt cdg hcg lippo Singre
6) tcil ocbc
7) singpost
8) fcot singtel  plife  ocbc  starhillg sci steng fct singpost sphreit cmt lippo singre ock fortune capitaretail capitacom
9)  uob tcil cdg netlink
10) sgx
11) fcot taisin sgx spost  starhillg fct cmt lippo
12) sph sats ksh ock


Remarks:

Bought more st eng sia eng sph comfort starhill.

A good run up by STI. Sitting on a pretty paper gains. Will continue to add various companies at various times using dividends received.




Overall,

nothing fanciful and nothing new: dividends received will be used to reinvest in the same counters and/or the counters which are about to pay dividends soon.

No further input is necessary. Portfolio creates the income every month and gets reinvested. One reinvestment move means one more continuous stream of income in the future.

Counters get rebalanced periodically as and when the opportunities arise.

Market up or down doesn't matter too much, in fact is not a bad thing after all. Dividends provided new cash flow as compounding and dollar cost average tool.




DON'T FORGET TO ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS:


1) WILL THIS COMPANY GO BUST IN 10 YEARS?
2) WILL THIS COMPANY STOP DIVIDENDS?


3) WILL THIS COMPANY STOP INCREASING DIVIDENDS OVER TIME?

Wednesday, 3 January 2018

did ST Eng reached bottom recently?



i invest primarily for dividend aka cash flow. when the yield goes up, i give the counter a second look and ask myself whether the yield rise is sustainable. in other words, the drop in price is rational or irrational. in the market traders and investors co exist. and amongst traders and investors, there are many sub groups.

back to the st eng. i decided to add around 320. i have no idea whether it would drop more or not.

but to me, that 320 price is its many years low and looking at its earnings, it should be able to sustain its dividend payout in 2018.

and true enough, as i said i don't know whether 320 is its low, it fell lower. then recovered.

i intend to keep this for long term, 5 and 9 dividends are like clockwork, well liked by investors like myself.








Tuesday, 2 January 2018

portfolio update dec 2017

Dividend by month

1) singtel
2) fcot sgx capitacom starhillg fct sphreit cmt fortune capitaretail
3) spost  taisin lippo nam lee netlink
5) fcot steng sgx  uob sph starhillg fct sphreit cmt cdg hcg lippo Singre
6) tcil ocbc
7) singpost
8) fcot singtel  plife  ocbc  capitacom starhillg sci steng fct singpost sphreit cmt lippo singre ock fortune capitaretail
9)  uob tcil cdg netlink
10) sgx
11) fcot taisin sgx spost  starhillg fct cmt lippo
12) sph sats ksh ock


Remarks:

sold off low keng huat suntec and most of capitacom as they have run up quite a fair bit and there are opportunities available to buy into relatively more reasonably priced counters.

bought sia eng st eng singtel comfortdelgro fortune capitaretailchina




Overall,

nothing fanciful and nothing new: dividends received will be used to reinvest in the same counters and/or the counters which are about to pay dividends soon.

No further input is necessary. Portfolio creates the income every month and gets reinvested. One reinvestment move means one more continuous stream of income in the future.

counters get rebalanced periodically as and when the opportunities arise.

Market up or down doesn't matter too much, in fact is not a bad thing after all. Dividends provided new cash flow as compounding and dollar cost average tool.




DON'T FORGET TO ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS:


1) WILL THIS COMPANY GO BUST IN 10 YEARS?
2) WILL THIS COMPANY STOP DIVIDENDS?


3) WILL THIS COMPANY STOP INCREASING DIVIDENDS OVER TIME?